Oh come on, I thought my tank in the last week got me out of this. I totally don't get the point of the playoffs. I really am not trying to be difficult, but I really don't enjoy this, it seems totally pointless to me. Can't the next seed replace me?

I won't push it like last year. My picks if my resignation aren't accepted are:

Texans, Saints, Falcons, Steelers and 180. But I really would appreciate it if I could be replaced by #13. The season is so many games and a clear test of skill, and then this is just a coin flip tournament with so few games and the deeper the playoffs go the less meaning this has because it's fewer and fewer games.

Groucho: Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him

Proverb: Failure is not falling down. Failure is not getting up again

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KazooSkinsFan wrote:The season is so many games and a clear test of skill, and then this is just a coin flip tournament with so few games and the deeper the playoffs go the less meaning this has because it's fewer and fewer games.

This is all true, of course.

If you really want out just predict a total of zero points. Tribe should be able to take care of the rest.

PS - I read stuff you wrote concerning this last year and I totally know how you felt about being drained.

171 total points (It will not matter because we have a different pick in one game)

Good luck Jokko!

PS This contest is just DIFFERENT than the normal Hognostications. There are two levels, games and total points. You can try to get one, the other or both to win. Not a coin flip at all.

The season is 256 games and the winner is the one who picks the most of them straight up. With the playoffs it's 1 versus 1 each week and one upset and you're out. And like you did, the home team knows the visitors picks and isn't out picking them, just deciding where they are wrong. So as the visitor you're almost always going to pick every favorite and make the home pick the upset or go with the points, which is totally a coin flip. And it's at the worst time. I'm in three pools and when the playoffs come I'm burned out on picking. But like last year I am not tanking on purpose and I didn't whine after the playoffs started, just before.

BTW, sucking this year in my other pick em pool paid off. I finished dead last, which was worth $350 on a $100 entry. Last year I finished first (yeah, I mentioned that). So first to worst, both pay. It is mediocrity that is death... I put almost no effort into picking this year, I was too busy. Until later in the year when I realized I could finish last. The third pool is a survivor pool.

Groucho: Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him

Proverb: Failure is not falling down. Failure is not getting up again

Twain: A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way